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lunes, 11 de junio de 2012

With this post I'm going to introduce a book fresh from the oven: "Steampunk: Antología retrofuturista" edited by Felix J. Palma with Fábulas de Albión.

In this work we can find a series of short stories written by the hands of Spanish-speaking writers through those trying to introduce to us in the Steampunk world and other retrofuturisms, inviting us to read it with a dear prologue.

As a general assessment, I must say that it's a good introduction for those who doesn't know this world, ergo, an entertaining anf original reading disposed for arousing the interest of potential readers and, maybe, future followers of this aesthetic.

Concerning those who knew the Steampunk world, it is, maybe, somewhat austere in some ways, quite basic and superficial, maybe.

In its defense, apart from the Steampunk world, it's a nice and amusing reading made-up for this set of stories that we can devour right in the bust trip.

Now I'm going to name those stories that attracted my attention:

- "El aria de la muñeca mecanica" by Care Santos, where we are introduced in the history of a couple of inventors of every kind of things and automata, but always female beings. It's a satire to the female position in the XIXth Century in spite of all those kind of gentlemen with all those kind of paraphilias.

-"Flux" by Fernando Royuela. There are constant references to Zaragoza with a story full of good manners, illegal games and a curious surprise in the end of this. Both a naughty and exciting story.

-"Prisa", by Jose Maria Merino. Nothing less that the invention of the steam-powered motor itsself in the plot of this story, and, of course, all those protests and rebellions in what this meants in that moment, and the events that mean now.